Degree Course: Political science, international security and public communication Syllabus for A.Y. 2019/2020  

The course will explore the link between political philosophy, moral philosophy and issues related to communication. The lectures will focus in particular on the relationship between democracy and communication. If we start from a definition of democracy that also includes a normative element, we must use a concept of communication intended as informed participation in decision-making processes and debates that precede them. and that follow them. In particular, we will analyze some key texts of Jürgen Habermas, one of the most important political philosophers of the twentieth century. The course will be organized according to two sections: after an accurate presentation of the author and the philosophical tradition to which it belongs, we will explain in detail a brief text in which Habermas attempt to demonstrate how democracy, the ethic founded on universalistic principles and the discourse imply each other. The first major work by Habermas will then be studied, developing the link between politics and communication by studying the ways in which the concept of public opinion was formed in Europe and what concrete forms the public sphere took between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries.

S. Petrucciani, Introduzione a Habermas, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2004

J. Habermas, Etica del discorso, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2004, da p. 49 a p. 121
J. Habermas, Storia e critica dell'opinione pubblica, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2005
J. Habermas, Fatti e norme. Contributi a una teoria discorsiva del diritto e della democrazia, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2013, pp. 369-433.

The course deals with the main features and evolutions of the international legal order.

Attending Students
- Cassese, Diritto internazionale, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2017 (escluse pp. 95-122 e pp. 159-178) .
- Articoli e sentenze di approfondimento indicati a lezione.

Non-attending Students
- Cassese, Diritto internazionale, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2017 (tutto).
- Ronzitti, Diritto internazionale dei conflitti armati, 5a edizione, Giappichelli, Torino, 2017 (solamente pp. 143-262).

The course aims to deepen the relationship between space, powers and media narratives in the international system, from the formation of national states to globalization.

The general part of the course is dedicated to the history of classical geopolitics, to the main theorists of Anglo-Saxon geopolitics, to the German and Italian schools of the twenties and thirties, until the decline of geopolitical studies in the aftermath of the Second World War. In the wake of the French school of Yves Lacoste and the magazine "Hérodote", the rebirth of geopolitics in the 1970s is followed, in connection with the Cold War, decolonization and the process of European integration, until the dissolution of the Soviet bloc. In the panorama of globalization and 11 September 2001, equal attention is paid to the "critical geopolitics" of Gerard Toal and to the challenges of geopolitics in the current international disorder.

Starting from the historical analysis of the geopolitical strategies of the United States, Russia, China, Japan and India, from the limits and potential of the European Union, the state of health of Africa and the situation in the Middle East, the monographic part deepens the relationships between the European Union and the Mediterranean, from the double point of view of international relations and political and regional crises, of political interdependence and media representations.

General part

1.Emidio Diodato,Che cos’è geopolitica, Carocci, Roma, 2011
[ISBN 978-88-430-6016-0]

2. Manlio Graziano, Geopolitica. Orientarsi nel grande disordine internazionale, il Mulino, Bologna, 2019 [ISBN 978-88-15-28372-6]

Monographic part

Option "International Security"

1.S.Cruciani, M. Ridolfi (a cura di), L’Unione Europea e il Mediterraneo. Relazioni internazionali, crisi politiche e regionali (1947-2016), FrancoAngeli, Milano, 2017 [ISBN 978-88-917-6146-0]

Option "Public communication"

1.S.Cruciani, M. Ridolfi (a cura di), L’Unione Europea e il Mediterraneo. Interdipendenza politica e rappresentazioni mediatiche (1947-2017), FrancoAngeli, Milano, 2017 [ISBN 978-88-917-6901-5]

MAIN TOPICS OF THE COURSE

- Principles and policies to safeguard our Planet
(a holistic perspective, from climate change and water security to linkages between environmental, human and animal health).
- Principles and policies for conservation and protection of Nature and the Environment.
- Developed and developing countries; Least Developed Countries.
- geographical and ecological handicaps.
- natural disasters / human disasters.
- Sustainable development /unsustainable development.

- Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, 2006: a documentary - film directed by Davis Guggenheim; the international campaign of the former United States Vice President Al Gore to educate world citizens on global warming and its consequences on the Earth's surface.

- Al Gore, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, 2017: a documentary - film directed by Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk; former American Vice President Al Gore continues his tireless fight, travelling around the world to train an army of activists and influence international climate policy.

- The Limits to Growth
Report by System Dynamics Group Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
he message of this book still holds today: The earth’s interlocking resources – the global system of nature in which we all live – probably cannot support present rates of economic and population growth much beyond the year 2100, if that long, even with advanced technology. In the summer of 1970, an international team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology began a study of the implications of continued worldwide growth. They examined the five basic factors that determine and, in their interactions, ultimately limit growth on this planet-population increase, agricultural production, nonrenewable resource depletion, industrial output, and pollution generation. The MIT team fed data on these five factors into a global computer model and then tested the behaviour of the model under several sets of assumptions to determine alternative patterns for mankind’s future. The Limits to Growth is the nontechnical report of their findings. The book contains a message of hope, as well: Man can create a society in which he can live indefinitely on earth if he imposes limits on himself and his production of material goods to achieve a state of global equilibrium with population and production in carefully selected balance.

Research to be carried out by Students
- Green Deal of EU.
- International fight against climate change and global warming: social and political events, and movements, in Europe, the world, and Italy.
- Greta Thunberg, Swedish environmental activist, and her role.
- Bushfires in Australia and consequences on animal Biodiversity.
- Brazilian forests: fires and devastation; responsibility of President Bolsonaro (follow the international press - available on the Web - such as The New York Times International Edition, Le Monde, etc.).
- Thailand, India, equatorial Africa: destruction (and fires) of forests; their consequences.
- Pollution from plastics and micro-plastics, in the Oceans and Mediterranean Sea.

- Jean Sellier, André Sellier, Atlas des peuples du Moyen Orient, Asie Centrale, Caucase, 2007 (2010)

- R. White, Crimes Against Nature. Environmental Criminology and Ecological Justice (Willan Publishing, Cullompton - UK), 2008 e 2014
- Peter C. List, Radical Environmentalism, 2005

- J. Rifkin, Il Sogno Europeo, 2005

- Joseph E. Stiglitz, La globalizzazione e i suoi oppositori, 2002 : adottare l'edizione successiva e più recente possibile

- R. Carson, Silent Spring, 1962

- J. Rifkin, Beyond Beef (Ecocidio: ed ital, 2002)

- UNEP, Desk Study on the Environment in Iraq, 2004

- Laura S. Etheredge, editor, Middle East Region in Transition. Historical Palestine, Israel, and the Emerging Palestinian Autonomous Areas, 2016

- G. Shafir, Land, Labor and the Origin of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,1882-1914, 2008

- Ilan Pappe, The ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (con ed. italiana 2008)

- Ilan Pappe, The biggest prison on earth, 2017

In the first part of the course we will work to acquire an appropriate basic terminology and a better understanding of the mechanisms of human (verbal and non-verbal) communication. In this context, some of the main theoretical semiotic researches will be discussed and used in a practical way.
The second part of the course will introduce textual strategies with concrete examples of media texts and practices. Applications will have a very varied panorama, as in today's world, increasingly crossed by processes of intermediality, crossmediality and transmediality between different media (press, cinema, radio, TV, website & social network).

Key concepts of the course are:
- communication (models, relationships, interactions);
- signals, signs, codes, interpretation;
- verbal and non-verbal (paralinguistic, kinesic, proxemic);
- technological mediation (specificity of media, multimediality);
- textuality, text types and formats;
- plastic and figurative semiotics;
- narration and narrativity (narrative strategies, conceptual framework, valorisations techniques).

Required Reading:

- Maria Pia Pozzato, Capire la semiotica, Roma: Carocci, 2013. ISBN: 9788843069651.
- Yvonne Bindi, Language design. Guida all'usabilità delle parole per professionisti della comunicazione, Milano: Apogeo, 2017. ISBN 9788850333943.
- Lecture notes by the teacher (provided during the course and available online on Moodle).

In addition, students must read a text chosen from the following options (listed in alphabetical order):
- Stefano Calabrese, Il sistema dell'advertising: parole e immagini in pubblicità, Roma: Carocci, 2012. ISBN: 9788843065905.
- Giovanna Cosenza, Introduzione alla semiotica dei nuovi media, Roma-Bari: Laterza, 2014. ISBN: 9788859300144.
- Stefano Di Pietro, Comunicazione di massa e scienze della mente. I meccanismi del consenso nel mondo contemporaneo, Roma: Carocci, 2017. ISBN: 9788843084951.
- Luca Rosati, Architettura dell'informazione. Guida alla trovabilità, dagli oggetti quotidiani al web, Milano: Apogeo, 2010. ISBN: 9788850334599.
- Augusto Valeriani, Twitter factor: come i nuovi media cambiano la politica internazionale, Roma-Bari: Laterza, 2011. ISBN: 9788842097198.

Paradigms and methods of social research. The quantitative data collection (local theories, case studies, sample surveys, measurements, secondary data). qualitative information collection (participant observation, observing participation, focus groups, qualitative interviews, documentary research). The data analysis (univariate and bivariate). Comparative Policy Research (definition and purpose of the comparison, units and comparative context, compare mode). The analysis of public policies (elements, tools and analysis objects)

P. Corbetta, Metodologia e tecniche della ricerca sociale, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2014

L. Morlino, Introduzione alla ricerca comparata, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2005

N. Giannelli, L'analisi delle politiche pubbliche, Carocci, Roma, 2008

The course shall develop skills in English as the main language of communication in Political English, International Relations and English for the Media and it will be divided in two parts:

1) A functional approach to English grammar as applied to reading and comprehension of a corpus of printed texts;
2) An analysis of the texts and the practice of concentrating essential information through summary making.

All students must refer to Dispensa LINGUA INGLESE PER LM62 PROF. GALLI 2017-18, to be downloaded from Moodle or Portale Studente.

First of all, the course will offer students a historical overview of European colonialism. The second part will be devoted to examine moments and aspects of Italian colonialism from the liberal age to Second War World. In the last part, it will analyze the topic of the loss of Italian colonies in the broader context of decolonization process.

G.P. Calchi Novati, L’Africa d’Italia. Una storia coloniale e postcoloniale, Carocci, Roma 2011

Additional texts chosen for non-attending students:
W. Reinhard, Storia del colonialismo, Einaudi, Torino 2002 [ed. or. 1966] (capp. I, IX, X, XI e XII)
D. Kennedy, Storia della decolonizzazione, il Mulino, Bologna 2017 [ed. or. 2016]

Growth, economic development, human development
Capitalist development and its phases
Origins and history of underdevelopment
Developing and least developed countries
Economic development and institutions
The problem of development in the history of economic thought
Theories of growth and development economics
The accumulation of capital
International trade
Income distribution, growth and development
Ecological problems and development
Capability Approach and Human Development
The detailed program and any supplementary teaching material will be available during the course.

The textbook is Volpi F. "Lezioni di economia dello sviluppo", FrancoAngeli, the last edition.

The course will deal with the deep changes occurring in the political culture of complex societies and the challenges coming from the globalization process. Political parties, ideologies, styles of political communication, political organization and participation are no longer the same as we have known in the classical years of the past century.

We will analize their processes, their causes, modalities and effects in relation to the quality of democracy.

Therefore we will focus on the following topics:
- Political cultures
- Political parties
- Political participation
- Leadership
- Populism
- Globalization
- National identities
- Political communication

1) Politica e mondo globale. L'internazionalizzazione della vita politica e sociale, a cura di Pietro Fantozzi e Arianna Montanari, Carocci editore, Roma 2008 NOTE: ONLY THE FOLLOWING CHAPTERS: 1, 2,5, 9

2) Culture politiche e mutamento nelle società complesse, a cura di Flaminia Saccà, Franco Angeli, 2015, Milano, NOTE: ONLY THE FOLLOWING CHAPTERS: Ist part chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, IInd part chapters 1 and 2 , (NO IIIrd part)

3) La crisi dei partiti e le trasformazioni della politica, Flaminia Saccà, SOCIOLOGIA, Rivista Quadrimestrale di Scienze storiche e sociali Anno XVVII, N. 2, 2013 (only the cited article )

Paradigms and methods of social research. The quantitative data collection (local theories, case studies, sample surveys, measurements, secondary data). qualitative information collection (participant observation, observing participation, focus groups, qualitative interviews, documentary research). The data analysis (univariate and bivariate). Comparative Policy Research (definition and purpose of the comparison, units and comparative context, compare mode). The analysis of public policies (elements, tools and analysis objects)

P. Corbetta, Metodologia e tecniche della ricerca sociale, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2014

L. Morlino, Introduzione alla ricerca comparata, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2005

N. Giannelli, L'analisi delle politiche pubbliche, Carocci, Roma, 2008

In the first part of the course we will work to acquire an appropriate basic terminology and a better understanding of the mechanisms of human (verbal and non-verbal) communication. In this context, some of the main theoretical semiotic researches will be discussed and used in a practical way.
The second part of the course will introduce textual strategies with concrete examples of media texts and practices. Applications will have a very varied panorama, as in today's world, increasingly crossed by processes of intermediality, crossmediality and transmediality between different media (press, cinema, radio, TV, website & social network).

Key concepts of the course are:
- communication (models, relationships, interactions);
- signals, signs, codes, interpretation;
- verbal and non-verbal (paralinguistic, kinesic, proxemic);
- technological mediation (specificity of media, multimediality);
- textuality, text types and formats;
- plastic and figurative semiotics;
- narration and narrativity (narrative strategies, conceptual framework, valorisations techniques).

Required Reading:

- Maria Pia Pozzato, Capire la semiotica, Roma: Carocci, 2013. ISBN: 9788843069651.
- Yvonne Bindi, Language design. Guida all'usabilità delle parole per professionisti della comunicazione, Milano: Apogeo, 2017. ISBN 9788850333943.
- Lecture notes by the teacher (provided during the course and available online on Moodle).

In addition, students must read a text chosen from the following options (listed in alphabetical order):
- Stefano Calabrese, Il sistema dell'advertising: parole e immagini in pubblicità, Roma: Carocci, 2012. ISBN: 9788843065905.
- Giovanna Cosenza, Introduzione alla semiotica dei nuovi media, Roma-Bari: Laterza, 2014. ISBN: 9788859300144.
- Stefano Di Pietro, Comunicazione di massa e scienze della mente. I meccanismi del consenso nel mondo contemporaneo, Roma: Carocci, 2017. ISBN: 9788843084951.
- Luca Rosati, Architettura dell'informazione. Guida alla trovabilità, dagli oggetti quotidiani al web, Milano: Apogeo, 2010. ISBN: 9788850334599.
- Augusto Valeriani, Twitter factor: come i nuovi media cambiano la politica internazionale, Roma-Bari: Laterza, 2011. ISBN: 9788842097198.

The course shall develop skills in English as the main language of communication in Political English, International Relations and English for the Media and it will be divided in two parts:

1) A functional approach to English grammar as applied to reading and comprehension of a corpus of printed texts;
2) An analysis of the texts and the practice of concentrating essential information through summary making.

All students must refer to Dispensa LINGUA INGLESE PER LM62 PROF. GALLI 2017-18, to be downloaded from Moodle or Portale Studente.

First of all, the course will offer students a historical overview of European colonialism. The second part will be devoted to examine moments and aspects of Italian colonialism from the liberal age to Second War World. In the last part, it will analyze the topic of the loss of Italian colonies in the broader context of decolonization process.

G.P. Calchi Novati, L’Africa d’Italia. Una storia coloniale e postcoloniale, Carocci, Roma 2011

Additional texts chosen for non-attending students:
W. Reinhard, Storia del colonialismo, Einaudi, Torino 2002 [ed. or. 1966] (capp. I, IX, X, XI e XII)
D. Kennedy, Storia della decolonizzazione, il Mulino, Bologna 2017 [ed. or. 2016]

The course will deal with the deep changes occurring in the political culture of complex societies and the challenges coming from the globalization process. Political parties, ideologies, styles of political communication, political organization and participation are no longer the same as we have known in the classical years of the past century.

We will analize their processes, their causes, modalities and effects in relation to the quality of democracy.

Therefore we will focus on the following topics:
- Political cultures
- Political parties
- Political participation
- Leadership
- Populism
- Globalization
- National identities
- Political communication

1) Politica e mondo globale. L'internazionalizzazione della vita politica e sociale, a cura di Pietro Fantozzi e Arianna Montanari, Carocci editore, Roma 2008 NOTE: ONLY THE FOLLOWING CHAPTERS: 1, 2,5, 9

2) Culture politiche e mutamento nelle società complesse, a cura di Flaminia Saccà, Franco Angeli, 2015, Milano, NOTE: ONLY THE FOLLOWING CHAPTERS: Ist part chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, IInd part chapters 1 and 2 , (NO IIIrd part)

3) La crisi dei partiti e le trasformazioni della politica, Flaminia Saccà, SOCIOLOGIA, Rivista Quadrimestrale di Scienze storiche e sociali Anno XVVII, N. 2, 2013 (only the cited article )

Growth, economic development, human development
Capitalist development and its phases
Origins and history of underdevelopment
Developing and least developed countries
Economic development and institutions
The problem of development in the history of economic thought
Theories of growth and development economics
The accumulation of capital
International trade
Income distribution, growth and development
Ecological problems and development
Capability Approach and Human Development
The detailed program and any supplementary teaching material will be available during the course.

The textbook is Volpi F. "Lezioni di economia dello sviluppo", FrancoAngeli, the last edition.

Paradigms and methods of social research. The quantitative data collection (local theories, case studies, sample surveys, measurements, secondary data). qualitative information collection (participant observation, observing participation, focus groups, qualitative interviews, documentary research). The data analysis (univariate and bivariate). Comparative Policy Research (definition and purpose of the comparison, units and comparative context, compare mode). The analysis of public policies (elements, tools and analysis objects)

P. Corbetta, Metodologia e tecniche della ricerca sociale, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2014

L. Morlino, Introduzione alla ricerca comparata, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2005

N. Giannelli, L'analisi delle politiche pubbliche, Carocci, Roma, 2008

First Part

Cap. 1 The economic rationale for the criminal law
Cap. 2 Benefit-cost analysis of the enforcement decision
Cap. 3 Measuring the amount and cost of crime
Cap. 4 The market for victimless crime
Cap. 5 The market for crime with victims
Cap. 6 Risk preferences and the supply of offences
Cap. 8 Modeling neighborhood crime and self enforcement
Cap. 9 Enforcement games
Capp. from 10 to 16 (notions)
Cap. 17 The broken windows hypothesis
Cap. 18 Crime and economic development
Cap. 20 Drugs and crime

Second Part
1. Tracing financial flows;
2. Fiscal monitoring;
3. Cross-boarder movements of currency;
4. The traceability of the public contracts;
5. Mafia: from south to north of Italy;
6. The dimension of mafia;
7. Confiscating the property of Organized crime;
8. Globalization and crime;
9. Criminal activity in the period 2014-2017;
10. Tax heavens;
11. Shadow economy and tax evasion.

- Yezer Anthony M. (2014) "Economics of crime and Enforcement". Routledge, London and New York

- Scientific Articles provided by the professor during the course.

The course will deal with the deep changes occurring in the political culture of complex societies and the challenges coming from the globalization process. Political parties, ideologies, styles of political communication, political organization and participation are no longer the same as we have known in the classical years of the past century.

We will analize their processes, their causes, modalities and effects in relation to the quality of democracy.

Therefore we will focus on the following topics:
- Political cultures
- Political parties
- Political participation
- Leadership
- Populism
- Globalization
- National identities
- Political communication

1) Politica e mondo globale. L'internazionalizzazione della vita politica e sociale, a cura di Pietro Fantozzi e Arianna Montanari, Carocci editore, Roma 2008 NOTE: ONLY THE FOLLOWING CHAPTERS: 1, 2,5, 9

2) Culture politiche e mutamento nelle società complesse, a cura di Flaminia Saccà, Franco Angeli, 2015, Milano, NOTE: ONLY THE FOLLOWING CHAPTERS: Ist part chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, IInd part chapters 1 and 2 , (NO IIIrd part)

3) La crisi dei partiti e le trasformazioni della politica, Flaminia Saccà, SOCIOLOGIA, Rivista Quadrimestrale di Scienze storiche e sociali Anno XVVII, N. 2, 2013 (only the cited article )

First of all, the course will offer students a historical overview of European colonialism. The second part will be devoted to examine moments and aspects of Italian colonialism from the liberal age to Second War World. In the last part, it will analyze the topic of the loss of Italian colonies in the broader context of decolonization process.

G.P. Calchi Novati, L’Africa d’Italia. Una storia coloniale e postcoloniale, Carocci, Roma 2011

Additional texts chosen for non-attending students:
W. Reinhard, Storia del colonialismo, Einaudi, Torino 2002 [ed. or. 1966] (capp. I, IX, X, XI e XII)
D. Kennedy, Storia della decolonizzazione, il Mulino, Bologna 2017 [ed. or. 2016]

The course shall develop skills in English as the main language of communication in Political English, International Relations and English for the Media and it will be divided in two parts:

1) A functional approach to English grammar as applied to reading and comprehension of a corpus of printed texts;
2) An analysis of the texts and the practice of concentrating essential information through summary making.

All students must refer to Dispensa LINGUA INGLESE PER LM62 PROF. GALLI 2017-18, to be downloaded from Moodle or Portale Studente.